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Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree): 12 Pieces in Liszt's Original Transcription for Piano Four Hands.(Book Review)
by Franz Liszt. Dover Publications, Inc. (31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501), 2002. 81 pp. $11.95. Intermediate.
Piano duettists of every stripe--children, adult beginners, professional duos--will rejoice over this re-publication of one of Liszt's most artful collections of pieces for piano, four hands. The original title promises something relatively rare in Liszt's output: Weihnachtsbaum: 12 Clavierstucke (zumeist leichter Spielart) ["Christmas Tree: 12 Piano Pieces, for the most part easy to play"].
Amazingly, this very playable set with its attractive theme, perfect for the masses of amateur pianists of both Liszt's and our own day, lay in obscurity until the present Dover volume, a reprint of the original Adolph Furstner publication of 1882. Though the cycle is easy to play, the music is sophisticated and the sentiments grownup. The pieces were written in the autumn of Liszt's life, in the late 1870s, evidently as a Christmas gift to his granddaughter Daniela.
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